Around half of U.S. students commonly see students in their schools wearing religious clothing or jewelry and about 40% have seen schoolmates praying before sporting events. That’s according to a Pew Research Center survey of more than 1,800 teenagers.
The survey asked students how frequently they’ve seen other students engage in a variety of religious expressions, including wearing religious clothing, praying before lunch, praying before sporting events, inviting other students to religious events, and reading religious texts at school. Only 8% of students said they have seen schoolmates engaging in four or five of the activities. It was more common for students to say they’d seen two (20%) or three (13%) such activities, and almost a third (32%) said that they’d rarely or never seen any of them (or they did not answer the question).
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